Improvement in revolving fire-arms



closed condition.

UNITED 'STATES PATENT OFFICE ALBERT CHRIST, OF CALIFORNIA, OHIO IMPROVEMENT IN REVO LVING FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,864, dated September 1l, 1866.

- To all 'whom ttmayoncem:

`Be it known that I, ALBERT CHRIST, of California, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Revolvers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

This is an improvement in the class of repeat-ing fire-arms which carry a revolving cylinder or breech-piece for the reception of a se-. ries of metallic cart-ridges; and my invention consists, chiefly, in a mode of Operating two distinct circles of cartridges by means of a single trigger.

Figure 1 represents a 'pistol embodying my invention. Fi g. 2 is a reverse view of the butt.

Fig. 3 is a rear-end view of` the breech-piece.

vcase B. Projecting`1ongitudinally from the case B is a stud,,0, which occupies an axial 4aperture in the revolving breech or cylinder D. A socket, E, in the butt, When the pistol is closed, receives and centers the rear end of p the stud O. F isa slotted tongue, which, in

the closed condition of the' arm, enters between two slotted chceks, G. His a key, which, i being pushed into the slots of both tongue and cheeks, serves to hold the pistol in its The breech D is traversed longitudinally by two circular series of holes, I, for. the reception of metallic cartridges J. Notches K in the periphery of the breech, receiving a spring-catch, L, at the termination of each propulsion ofthe breech, serve to bring and hold said breech precisely in line for the discharg'e of each fsuccessive cartridge. A pin, m, projecting from the 'hammer M acts at 'the proper moment to liberate the catch L,

and permits the breech to'be revolvcd.

Hinged to the hammer M are two fingers,

N N', which traverse slots ar in the butt A,

and act successively, the outer finger, N, upon the heads of two consecutive cartridges in the outer circle, then the inner finger, N', upon the head of a cartridgein the inner circle, and then the outer finger upon two consecutive cartridges in the outer circle, and so on in suceession until each cartridge has been .iu turn advanced and fired.

I O is an aperture in the butt for the passage of .the nose of 'the hammer in the act of firing, and, being intermediate in radial distance between the inner and outer circles of cartridges, operates equally on both alternately in the order above referred to.

Operation: The spent cartridges, having been removed from the breech, are replaced by a new batch of eighteeuball-cartridges, and the butt and breech are keyed fast. The hammer is then cocked, and the piece fired by pulling the trigger in the ordinary mariner. Each cockin g of the pistol acts to advance the breech, so as to bring each time the next succeeding uexploded cartridge opposite the passage O.

Inclaim herein as new and of my invention- 1. The combination of the two circles of cartridge-chambers I, twofeed-fingers, N N', and single hammer M, 'constructed, arranged, and operatin g as and for the purposes set fort-h.

2. Propellinga revolving breech by means ALBERT CHRIST.

Witnesses:

GEO. H.KN1GHT, J A'Mns H. LAYMAN.l 

